For my birthday I had a zombie luau party. I did not want a gory cake so I decided to make a cute little “ready to roast” pig birthday cake! How I Made This Roast Pig Birthday Cake I found a vintage Betty Crocker pan set on ebay for $10. Once it arrived I went … Read more
This turkey cake was my third attempt at using fondant. I found a recipe for fondant on Pintrest and started working with it and got hooked. For Thanksgiving I wanted to make special deserts for two parties. I decided to see if I could make a turkey cake for each party. They turned out better … Read more
This is my roasted pig cake. His name was Louie. We ate him. I got mixed reviews on him. My cakes freak my sister out. She says they are weird. I love weird. I made 3 batches of my special pound cake and stacked them. I put a thin layer of butter cream and then … Read more
We were asked to create a 21st birthday cake for somebody who eats nothing but chicken. This is how we created our Chicken Dinner Cake:- We cooked 2 x 10” square orange flavoured Madeira cakes. We cut them in half horizontally and filled them with lemon butter cream. We then stacked them on top of … Read more
One of my friend’s commissioned me to make this turkey cake for her family’s Thanksgiving dinner. The cake was then driven to the final destination 4 hours away, so I had to make sure it would be intact and look the same when it arrived. The drumsticks were made from rice krispies treat, as per … Read more
Everyone seems to spend a lot of time carving round cakes or something, I highly recommend using the Wilton football cake pan – make 2 cakes and put them together, then simply notch the edges! The secret to getting this Roasted Turkey Cake just right was a 4 day process – day four, fondant cranberries … Read more
I made this Turkey cake for Thanksgiving and quite a few people had to look twice. I made it out of pound cake and covered it with fondant.
My son’s 11th birthday was on Thanksgiving and he requested a turkey cake, one that looked like it was cooked and we could put it on the table and fool everyone into thinking it was real! I used 2 boxed banana cake mixes and baked them one at a time in an 8 cup glass … Read more
This Homemade Thanksgiving Turkey Cake was inspired by the pictures I’d seen up on this site. I was afraid I could not do this but the other submissions really inspired me. I started with yellow cake mix and Duncan Hines cream cheese frosting on the inside. I got the oval shape by using a football … Read more
This Thanksgiving Turkey Cake is a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I used 3 rectangular cake pans, frosted the layers and let it sit in the freezer for about an hour. I then carved out the basic shape of the body and covered it with fondant that was tinted with a copper tone. … Read more
I made this turkey cake for a thanksgiving party. My goal was to make a cake that looked like a real cooked turkey. It turned out fabulous. It had a lot of rough spots but I think that it actually made the cake look more realistic. For the cake inside I did a vanilla cake … Read more
I baked a 13×9 and an oval cake for this Turkey Cake. I let the oval cake dome when it cooked so I could use it to make the turkey look round. I put the oval cake on top of the 13×9. The exposed parts of the 13×9 are what I cut off to make … Read more
For this Thanksgiving Turkey Cake I used an eight X twelve rectangular pan for the bottom base and topped it with a cake baked in a football shaped cake pan. I used spice cake mix and cream cheese frosting. The drumsticks and wings were formed with rice krispie treats. I blended copper, brown and a … Read more
I wanted to make something different this year for a Thanksgiving cake so I came up with this idea. I used a dome pan and make two jumbo cupcakes for the turkeys thighs. I made two indentations on each to put the cupcakes in and tooth picks to secure them. Rolled up brown construction paper … Read more
I made this turkey into a Thanksgiving cake. Many people thought this was a real turkey, which was a huge compliment. I used 10 cakes to get the size I needed. I carved, shaped and butter creamed. I then dyed fondant a yellowish color.I wanted to make turkey frills out of gum paste but ran … Read more
This thanksgiving cake was just for fun on Thanksgiving. Its sculpted from two sheet-sized layers of cake and airbrushed. The turkey legs had to be reinforced with dowels.s sculpted from two sheet-sized layers of cake and airbrushed. The turkey legs had to be reinforced with dowels.
This Thanksgiving cake was made by baking two cakes in a round glass bowl and sticking them together with frosting to make the body. Cut the bottom of the rounded pieces flat for it to sit nicely. The legs were cut out of a sheet cake made of spice cake. I cut up more of … Read more